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The Great Derpression
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1
What did the government offer to Veterans?
health insurance
medals for serving in the war
a bonus check in 1945
free firearms
2
A serial drama is called a
Situation Comedy
Murder Mystery
Soap Opera
Romantic Comedy
3
What was the nickname given to Shanty towns?
Hoovervilles
Skid Row
Shack City
Garbage town
4
Where did the Bonus Marchers end up camping out?
Washington Monument
US capital Lawn
Lincoln Memorial
Pentagon
5
The most popular form of entertainment of the 1930's came from the
newspapers
Television
radio
stage-Vaudeville
6
Jobless, homeless people that hopped on trains to find jobs were called
Caboose chasers
Bums
Hobos
Bailiffs
7
The Dust Bowl caused many in the Great Plains to move to
Canada
New York
Florida
California
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After the Stock Market Crash, many people rushed to banks to
get credit cards
make mortgage payments
Get their money out
put more in savings
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Literature of this time was written about
the troubles of the times
Romantic comedies
fictional stories
Biblical stories
10
To make the depression worse, the Great Plains experienced a massive
deluge of rain
Tsunami
dust storm
drought
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How did farmers protest?
gave their crops away
they became congressmen
burned their barns
destroyed their crops
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Which is NOT a cause of the Stock Market crash?
Low interest rates
overproduction
High Tariffs
Dust Bowl Planting techniques
13
Why was the US president afraid to bail out the US with government funds?
fear of it leading to socialism
they were broke
it would cause inflation
it would cause deflation
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Who was the US President during the depression?
Wilson
Roosevelt
Coolidge
Hoover
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What made the Dust Bowl so bad?
the soil was too heavy to plow
the dust was toxic and killed everything
the dust made the crops wither
the drought caused the soil to dry and blow away
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Buying stocks by only paying a fraction of the price and borrowing the rest is called buying on
margin
speculation
installments
credit
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How did the losing of banks affect non-stock buying Americans?
it lowered interest rates
Checks were made of bad paper
They could only get half of their savings
they lost all their money
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Why did farmers protest?
they could not afford to produce the food/crops
people preferred European grown foods
the US went anti-vegan
tractor fuel was polluting the food
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Why did the Bonus Marchers become angry?
they didn't want to wait 16 years for a check
they wanted better uniforms
They wanted more money
they wanted food
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The Federal Reserve made the mistake of
keeping interest rates low
keeping interest rates high
insuring loans
putting to much money in federal banks
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What did the Hoover do to help?
nothing
lowered interest rates
increased funding for public works
started welfare
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What were "Shanty Towns"?
The upper crust side of town where the rich lived
make-shift towns with jobless people-with houses made of scraps
Towns that had laws against shantys
Towns with fishing shantys
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To take possession of property from a mortgager because of defaults in payments is called
bandruptcy
foreclosure
stealing
condemnation
